Open Arsenal

The Open Source Eye on Every Share

OpenFloat is a comprehensive financial transparency and market intelligence platform designed to monitor share distribution, ownership, and trading activity across every publicly traded company in global financial markets. The platform will maintain an extensive database of corporate share structures, including authorized shares, issued shares, outstanding shares, public float, institutional holdings, insider ownership, stock lending, and short interest. By consolidating information from regulatory filings, stock exchanges, clearinghouses, corporate disclosures, and other verifiable sources, OpenFloat will establish a continuously updated historical record of publicly available equity market information.

At the core of OpenFloat is an advanced market surveillance and anomaly detection system designed to identify potential phantom share activity, unexplained share distribution discrepancies, persistent failures to deliver, unusual short-selling patterns, and synthetic market exposure. The platform will correlate these findings with stock prices, trading volumes, institutional transactions, corporate announcements, and major market events to identify suspicious pumps, sudden selloffs, coordinated price movements, and potential market manipulation. Comprehensive brokerage, clearinghouse, market maker, and institutional relationship mapping will help researchers investigate the financial institutions participating in market activity and identify recurring patterns across companies and securities.

OpenFloat will also provide an extensive investor protection and legal evidence preservation system designed to support independent investigations and potential securities litigation. Features will include historical market reconstruction, shareholder exposure analysis, secure investor-submitted transaction records, company-specific investigative reports, regulatory enforcement tracking, and securities class action monitoring. Cryptographic evidence verification, timestamped records, original source preservation, and immutable audit logs will help establish a verifiable history of documented market activity and analytical findings. Investors and authorized legal professionals will be able to examine potential financial harm, identify affected shareholder groups, and develop evidence packages supporting regulatory investigations, restitution efforts, and potential class action claims.

Through public research dashboards, interactive market visualizations, searchable company profiles, historical datasets, automated alerts, and developer APIs, OpenFloat will make complex financial market information accessible to investors, researchers, journalists, developers, and legal professionals. Advanced analytical tools and artificial intelligence-assisted research will support cross-company comparisons, market-wide anomaly detection, institutional ownership analysis, brokerage relationship mapping, and automated identification of unusual trading patterns. Every finding will include supporting sources, documented methodologies, and clear distinctions between verified information, calculated results, statistical anomalies, and unverified allegations. OpenFloat’s ultimate objective is to establish an independently auditable picture of global equity markets, promote accountability among market participants, and help ensure that investors have the transparency and evidence necessary to pursue appropriate remedies when financial misconduct is established.

This specification is released under the AGPL-3.0+ and is free to use with required Section 7 attribution. Organizations seeking attribution-free deployment may obtain a Specification Branding License, with fees based on use and deployment scope.